Sign for wire fences.



PATENTED DEC. 26, 1905.

G. L. GOBTZ. SIGN FOR WIRE FENCES.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 8, 1905.

cnrrnn srarss PATENT OFFICE.

SIGN FOR WIRE FENCES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 26, 1905.

Application filed June 8,1905. Serial No. 6 3- To (all whom it may concern-.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE LEONARD Gon'rz, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ohicago, county of Cook, State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Signs for WVire Fences; and I declare the followingto be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates in general to advertising, and more particularly to means for displaying advertisements upon wire fences. The wire fences along roads and tracks afford excellent advertising mediums, which it has heretofore been proposed to utilize through signs secured to the horizontal fence-wires by vertical tiewires. Such signs are, however, impractical, as the force of the wind causes the tie-wires to creep along the fence-wires, with the result that the signs become bowed or curved away from the fence and are eventually torn therefrom.

The primary object of my invention is to provide means for so securely attaching signs to wire fences that they will always lie flat in position for the matter thereon to be easily read.

A further object of my invention is to provide a sign which may be readily and securely attached to -a wire fence and which will be simple in construction, inexpensive in manufacture, and efficient in use.

The embodiment of my invention herein disclosed may be generally described as consisting in a sign having metallic corners, tiewires extending diagonally from the corners of the sign and adapted to be bent around vertical and horizontal fence-wires at their points of intersection, and means for securing the tie-wires to the metallic corners of the sign.

My invention will be more fully described hereinafter with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which the same is illustrated as embodied in several convenient and practical forms, and in which- Figure 1 is a front elevational view of a wire fence, showing signs secured thereto; Fig. 2, an enlarged detail view of one corner of a sign and the adjacent wires of a fence; Fig. 3, a sectional view on line 3 3, Fig. 2; Fig. 4, a sectional view on line 4 4, Fig. 2; Fig. 5, a

view similar to Fig. 2, showing a modification; Fig. 6, a detail view of one corner of a sign, showing a modified means for connecting the tie-wire thereto; Fig. 7, a view similar to Fig. 6, showing still another modification.

Similar reference characters are used to designate similar parts in the several figures of the drawings.

Reference characters A and A indicate fence-posts which support a wire fence composed of horizontal wires (0 and vertical wires (4. It is customary to connect the horizontal and vertical fence-wires at their points of intel-section, as by bending the vertical wires around the horizontal wires.

B indicates a sign of any suitable materialsuch, for instance, as cardboard rendered impervious to weather by suitable treatment. Secured to each corner of the sign B is a corner plate O, preferably formed of metal such, for instance, as tin which may be secured to the sign in any suitable manner-as,

for instance, by bending its edges over the edges of the sign and crimping the same.

A strap 0 is stamped from the metallic corner plate O and bent outwardly, as clearly shown in Figs. 3 and 4:,thereby affording means for securely attaching tie-wires to the sign. D indicates a tie-wire extending diagonally from the corner-plate of the sign and preferably formed of a piece of wire so looped that its ends may extend through the strap 0 and be bent laterally, thereby firmly uniting the tie-wire to the corner-plate. The looped end of the tie-wire is adapted to be bent around vertical and horizontal fence-wires at a point of their intersection.

\Vhen the sign is made of material of sufficient rigidity and strengthsuch, for instance, as metalno corner-plates need be used, the straps for attaching the tie-wires to the sign being struck from the metal of the sign. I have illustrated in Fig. 5 a sign so constructed, in which B indicates a portion of the sign, and 5 a strap struck from the corner thereof, through which the ends (Z of the tie-wire I) extend.

If desired, the ends of the tie-wire may be secured to the corners of the sign without the employment of straps struck either from corner-plates or from the material of the sign itself. In Fig. 6 I have illustrated the sign B provided with a corner-plate O, suitably secured to the sign, as by crimping,

the

crirnps, however, terminating a distance from the corner to form sockets 0, into which extend the bent ends ti of the tie-wire D.

The same means for securing the diagonal corner tie-wires directly to a sign may be employed as illustrated in Fig. 7, in which the sign B is made of sufficiently strong material so that the edges thereof may be bent over to form sockets Z2 into which extend the bent ends cl of the tie-wire D.

By extending the tie-Wires diagonally from the corners of the sign the sign may be tightly secured to a wire fence and under such tension that it will always lie flat in position to display to the best advantage the advertising matter thereon. By bending the corner tiewires around the points of intersection of the vertical and horizontal wires of the fence there is no danger of the tie-wires creeping or of their becoming detached from the fencewires.

From the foregoing description it will be observed that 1 have invented an improved means for attaching signs to wire fences whereby the signs may be readily secured in position and will be permanently retained upon the fence in the position in which they are secured.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is"

1. The combination with a wire fence comprising vertical and horizontal wires, of a sign, and means secured to and extending diagonally from the corners of said sign and attached to the vertical and horizontal wires of said fence at their points of intersection.

soaaav 2. The combination with a sign for wire fences, of metallic corner-plates secured to said sign, and tie-Wires secured to said corner-plates and adapted to be secured to the wires of a fence.

3. The combination with a sign for Wire fences, of metallic corners secured to the sign by crimping, tie-wires extending from said corner-plates to the fence-wires, and means for tightly securing said tie-wires to said corher-plates.

4. The combination with a sign for Wire fences, of straps carried by said sign adjacent its corners, and diagonal tie-wires the ends of which extend through and are secured to said straps.

5. The combination with a sign for wire fences, of corner-plates secured to said sign, straps formed integrally with said cornerplates, tie-wires fixed to and extending from said straps and adapted to be attached to vertical and transverse fence-wires at their points of intersection.

6. The combination with a sign for wire fences, of corner-plates for said sign, flanges on said corner-plates overlying and crimped upon the edges of said sign, straps stamped from the material of said corner-plates, and

tie-wires each formed of wire doubled upon itself, the free ends of said tie-wires extending through and being bent around said straps.

In testimony whereof I sign this specification in the presence of two Witnesses.

GEORGE LEONARD GOETZ.

Witnesses:

HATTIE B. LEHMAN, G. A. MULLEN. 

